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I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
Francis Collins
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Francis Collins
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: April 14
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Virginia
United States
Francis S. Collins
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I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.
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By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.
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There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons, based on knowledge, rather than default assumptions based on a temporary lack of knowledge.
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It's interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick. There must have been a reason for that - he was modelling for us what it is we are intended to do by following his path.
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All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.
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I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.
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I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith.
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Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.
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What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?
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Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
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[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I believe that reading our blueprints, cataloguing our own instruction book, will be judged by history as more significant than even splitting the atom or going to the moon.
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If God made the natural laws, why could he not violate them when it was a particularly significant moment for him to do so? And if you accept the idea that Christ was also divine, which I do, then his Resurrection is not in itself a great logical leap.
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Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.
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We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.
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What does it take to get people interested, what does it take to get people engaged, what does it take to get them to give a biospecimen? What does it take to get people like Jim [Ostell] to get interested and engaged, versus someone like my mother?
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When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.
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If God is real, and I believe he is, then he is outside of nature. He is, therefore, not limited by the laws of nature in the way that we are.
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So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.
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What wakes me up at night is this next generation and what's happening to them. And they're invariably excited about the science that they're doing, but invariably anxious about where there's a future.
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I think God appreciates that we appreciate his creation.
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